Beshear, Stumbo credit law for reducing prescription-drug deaths, but reduction was far outnumbered by rise in heroin fatalities

Deaths from prescription-drug abuse in Kentucky declined keep up time in support of the at the outset instant in a decade, and top state officials are crediting a law voted for by so as to year's General Assembly.

However, passage of the law has prompted many drug users to switch to heroin, and the escalation in heroin deaths (121) was much superior than the decline in prescription-drug dead (19).